"When I went to the hospital with my dad [
getting choked up] they just said, 'We're so sorry.' So I'm hoping to testify in front of Congress. There's one company that's developing a drug for it, but it takes a long time. And people who are diagnosed with it don't have a long time.

It used to strike people in their 70s and 80s and now people who are 25 are talking to me on Twitter who have it. ... I want to get the ball rolling on this. ... It has nothing to do with smoking, he was a vegan way before it was popular. He hiked two hours a day, never ate red meat, drank one or two glasses of red wine a night. He was 61 when he was diagnosed and dead by 62."